Increasing Production Diversity and Diet Quality: Evidence from Bangladesh.

ABSTRACT: In the context of rural Bangladesh, we assess whether agriculture training alone, nutrition Behavior Communication Change (BCC) alone, combined agriculture training and nutrition BCC, or agriculture training and nutrition BCC combined with gender sensitization improve: (a) production diversity, either on household fields or through crop, livestock or aquaculture activities carried out near the family homestead and (b) diet diversity and the quality of household diets. All treatment arms were implemented by government employees. Implementation quality was high. No treatment increased production diversification of crops grown on fields. Treatment arms with agricultural training did increase the number of different crops grown in homestead gardens and the likelihood of any egg, dairy, or fish

SUBMITTER: Ahmed A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11164552 | biostudies-literature | 2024 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature